We love to hear from our readers and have them share interesting case studies with us. This week Patrice McKay, will share her story of an interesting find while in the ER. Patrice is featured in this week’s sonographer spotlight. Please check it out and learn about her inspiring journey into cardiac ultrasound and her recent volunteer work. Take it away Patrice…
Last week we reviewed some common errors found when measuring diastolic function. This week we will review 5 steps to identify diastolic dysfunction in echo. Since the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission mandates both the assessment and reporting of diastolic function for echo accreditation, we thought it would be a good idea to review these measurements again. We understand that diastology can be complex, but this is a great starting point.
Now that diastology is a mandated part of the scanning protocol for all of our accreditation clients, we are starting to see more diastology measurement errors. We thought that sharing these errors may help others to avoid them. This week, we will review correct tissue Doppler measurement techniques while reviewing two common errors. These errors include:
We recently reviewed a case during a local hospital quality improvement meeting that required us to assess whether or not there was prosthetic aortic valve stenosis. It was interesting to touch up on the key parameters that should be assessed. This week we will review the key points for imaging and interpreting prosthetic aortic valve stenosis with echocardiography.
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